IT dazzles the elite who gather annually atop the snowy hills of Davos and defies gravity in the canyons of Wall Street. But America's supercharged economy has become excessively lean and mean, according to a new book by Edward Luttwak. In ''Turbo...

February 14, 1999, Sunday

TURBO-CAPITALISM Winners and Losers in the Global Economy By Edward Luttwak 290 pages. HarperCollins. $26. By the term turbo-capitalism, Edward Luttwak means turbocharged capitalism, or the state of today's American economy, which has been...

February 8, 1999, Monday

To the Editor: Doug Bandow (Op-Ed, July 6) describes me as a "former Reagan policy adviser" and goes on to say that I "waxed nostalgic" about large families because of their greater tolerance of war casualties. In fact, I have been a...

The Endangered American Dream How to Stop the United States From Becoming a Third-World Country and How to Win the Geo-Economic Struggle for Industrial Supremacy By Edward N. Luttwak 365 pages. Simon & Schuster. $24. Much will seem familiar about...

September 27, 1993, Monday

To the Editor: As a former legal adviser to the Somalia national police force, I strongly disagree with "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" by Edward N. Luttwak of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Op-Ed, July 22). Contrary to Mr....

August 3, 1993, Tuesday

To the Editor: On behalf of the New York State Task Force on New Americans, I take issue with "The Riots: Underclass vs. Immigrants" (Op-Ed, May 15) by Edward N. Luttwak of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mr. Luttwak scapegoats...

By LEON V. SIGAL; Leon V. Sigal is a member of the editorial board of The New York Times

LEAD: THE END OF THE COLD WAR European Unity, Socialism, and the Shift in Global Power. By Bogdan Denitch. 123 pp. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Cloth, $25. Paper, $10.95. THE COLD WAR IS OVER By William G....